Re: Removing cross/{binutils,gcc}-mips-current

[Chris Pinnock <chris_pinnock%mac.com@localhost>]

If they serve no purpose and there is no clear dependency on then, perhaps best to remove them now?
KRgds
Chris

> On 14 Feb 2021, at 15:44, Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost> wrote:
> 
> I totaly forgot about these pkgs - it is high time to remove them,
> they do not provide any real value nowadays and their names are totaly
> confusing:
> 
> 	cross/binutils-mips-current
> 	cross/gcc-mips-current
> 
> Neither of them is tracking gcc or binutils -current, both are ancient
> versions. There are better pkgs for some similar targets available
> as
> 
> 	cross/mipsel-none-elf-binutils
> 	cross/mipsel-none-elf-gcc
> 
> so I'd like to propos removing the "current" ones.
> 
> Background: I added both some years ago when then-current versions of
> binutils and gcc supported the Playstation2 cpu again (but the NetBSD
> in-tree gcc/binutils did not yet do that). I guess noone is using those
> pkgs any more.
> 
> Do we need to wait for post next branch, or can we just kill them?
> 
> Martin